{"id":227737,"date":"2018-02-26T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=227737"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:38:23","slug":"10-cities-where-foreigners-earn-the-most-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/227737\/10-cities-where-foreigners-earn-the-most-money\/","title":{"rendered":"10 cities where foreigners earn the most money"},"content":{"rendered":"

HSBC has released the results<\/a> <\/strong>of its latest ‘Expat Explorer survey’, ranking the cities around the world where expats earn the most money.<\/p>\n

The data is based on surveys completed by 27,587 expats from 159 countries and territories. 52 cities were included in the data analysis, with a minimum sample of 90 expat respondents required before a city could be included on the list.<\/p>\n

According to the data, Mumbai is the leading city for expat earnings, with foreigners working in the Indian city earning an average of around $217,165 (R2.5 million) a year.<\/p>\n

San Francisco ($207,227) and Zurich ($206,875) round off the top three – well above the global average of $99,903 (R1.15 million).<\/p>\n

Johannesburg was the only South African city to feature on the list with an average salary of $92,416 (R1.06 million), behind only Nairobi with $119,182 (R1.37 million) when looking at African cities.<\/p>\n

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Rank<\/th>\nCity<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nAnnual earnings (USD)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMumbai<\/td>\nIndia<\/td>\n$217 165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSan Francisco<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n$207 227<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nZurich<\/td>\nSwitzerland<\/td>\n$206 875<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nShanghai<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n$202 211<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nGeneva<\/td>\nSwitzerland<\/td>\n$184 942<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nNew York City<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n$182 240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nLos Angeles<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n$161 126<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nJakarta<\/td>\nIndonesia<\/td>\n$152 589<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nHong Kong<\/td>\nHong Kong<\/td>\n$148 410<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nParis<\/td>\nFrance<\/td>\n$139 602<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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HSBC has released the results of its latest ‘Expat Explorer survey’, ranking the cities around the world where expats earn the most money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26,5368],"class_list":["post-227737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline","tag-hsbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227737"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227901,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227737\/revisions\/227901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}